{"id":61908,"date":"2014-02-11T15:07:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T13:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61908"},"modified":"2014-02-11T15:08:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T13:08:54","slug":"why-flappy-bird-was-killed-game-creator-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61908-why-flappy-bird-was-killed-game-creator-explains","title":{"rendered":"Why Flappy Bird was killed: game creator explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in an <a title=\"Forbes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lananhnguyen\/2014\/02\/11\/exclusive-flappy-bird-creator-dong-nguyen-says-app-gone-forever-because-it-was-an-addictive-product\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Forbes<\/a>, Flappy Bird creator, 29-year-old Vietnamese Dong Nyugen explained why he decided to pull the hugely popular game from mobile app stores.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line: Nyugen believed it was becoming a harmfully addictive product and he didn&#8217;t like that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed. But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it\u2019s best to take down Flappy Bird. It\u2019s gone forever,&#8221; he told Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>Nyugen also said that his life hasn&#8217;t been the same comfortable affair he was used to prior to the game&#8217;s success. From this I infer that his noble conscience to protect gamers from an addictive product, coupled with the <a title=\"Developer earns R550,000 per day, game ruined his life\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61862-developer-earns-r550000-per-day-game-ruined-his-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">media blitz around the game&#8217;s success<\/a> (reportedly earning him $50,000 per day), had become too much for him to handle.<\/p>\n<p>Nyugen said &#8220;my life has not been as comfortable as I was before. I couldn\u2019t sleep. I don\u2019t think it&#8217;s a mistake. I have thought it through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the stress, following his announcement of the removal of the game from the iOS and Android app stores, Nyugen was flooded with death-threats through Twitter. He denies that there were legal claims against the game (<a title=\"Guardian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/feb\/11\/nintendo-denies-flappy-bird-legal-challenge?\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo has just denied the rumour they issued a legal threat<\/a>). Nyugen does not intend to take legal action against the flood of Flappy Bird clones that have appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Nyugen will still be involved in game development, and currently has two popular games on app stores: Super Ball Juggling and Shuriken Block. &#8220;After the success of Flappy Bird, I feel more confident, and I have freedom to do what I want to do,&#8221; said Nyugen.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fQoJZuBwrkU\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61862-developer-earns-r550000-per-day-game-ruined-his-life.html\">Developer earns R550,000 per day, game ruined his life<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61885-watch-dogs-launch-date-update-wii-u-delayed.html\">Watch Dogs launch date update, Wii U delayed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61883-the-lego-movie-rakes-in-r770-million-in-one-weekend.html\">The Lego Movie rakes in R770 million in one weekend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61880-heavenly-sword-new-movie-trailer.html\">Heavenly Sword: new movie trailer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61878-next-gen-worms-battlegrounds-announced.html\">Next-gen Worms Battlegrounds announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flappy Bird was too addictive so it&#8217;s gone forever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":61863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12001,12000,21],"class_list":["post-61908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dong-nguyen","tag-flappy-bird","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}